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solari@gmail.comTV-YGainesville, FloridaWeeklyPodcast: Friday preview for Florida Gators vs. Kentuckyhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-preview-for-florida-gators-vs-kentucky/
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:00:35 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110851https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-preview-for-florida-gators-vs-kentucky/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-preview-for-florida-gators-vs-kentucky/feed/0GC brings you our Friday preview podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky game on Saturday night in Lexington.GC brings you our Friday preview podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky game on Saturday night in Lexington.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the keys for the Gators on both offense and defense on Saturday against Kentucky.
Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch for the Gators on Saturday, plus we predict several games around the country on Saturday.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, day before Kentucky. Time to start a new winning streak. I will say this. I am not as smart this year as I was last year, because I didn’t hear about what was going on in 1987 or 1986, last time Florida and Kentucky played.
Nick: I did some Kentucky radio, and they started talking about streak. I went back into listening to Major League, the movie, and he’s like, “We won yesterday. That’s one. We won today. That’s two. If we win tomorrow, that’s three. That’s a winning streak.” I was kind of like, if Kentucky manages to pull it off Saturday it’s not really a streak. You won a couple, but you’re not streaking yet. But I didn’t have to go back and look what gas prices were back in 1987 or what the most listened to song was. No history lessons this week.
Andrew: Yeah. I agree with you. You and I are big baseball guys, and the thing in baseball is when you win three in a row that’s a winning streak. One or two, that’s not a winning streak. Kentucky, wake me up when you’ve won three in a row. I know you’re not getting cocky, because you only lost, what, 40 straight before then, it seemed like. I will say this. All streaks have to end, obviously. I don’t want to say that it was a bad thing that Florida lost last year. I think that had Florida beat Kentucky last year I don’t know that they finish like they did.
Nick: I just wrote a story about that. I remember the Monday press conference with Dan Mullen. Of course, he gets asked about. It’s literally everyone. Every player or coach from both teams get asked about the streak for 30 years.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: He said on Monday, it’s bound to end at some point. That’s just sports. Then when they lost, I immediately remembered that quote, like you shouldn’t have said that. At some point it was going to happen, whether it was Dan Mullen or whether it was head coach Tim Tebow in the year 2047.
Andrew: Right. It had been close in the past. The Demarcus Robinson touchdown.
Nick: Yeah. I’m already back in Lexington. The last time I was here, if Kentucky covers two wide receivers, the streak ends.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: That Will Grier touchdown, or was it Jeff Driskell? The one in the triple overtime game.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: I think the play clock was zero.
Andrew: Yeah. There was several opportunities that they could have lost, and it could have been over with. Again, I think that you don’t overlook these guys anymore. Listen, I don’t think you should have overlooked them last year either. What Mark Stoops has done up there in Kentucky is slowly build a program that’s respectful. I don’t know that you’ll ever build Kentucky up to be an SEC Eastern contender every year, but I do think that they’re more respectful now.
I will ask you this. This is something that I’ve talked about with a couple of people on radio and different things. Does the transfer portal hurt or help teams like Kentucky more? Hear me out when I say this. Last year’s Kentucky team was so good because of the veteran leadership that they had. They had the senior in Benny Snell, the senior in, what was it? Josh Allen, right? That’s right?
]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!35:50Podcast: Recapping the Florida Gators win over UT-Martinhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-ut-martin/
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:00:44 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110761https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-ut-martin/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-ut-martin/feed/0GC brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators 45-0 shut out win over UT-Martin on Saturday night in the Swamp.GC brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators 45-0 shut out win over UT-Martin on Saturday night in the Swamp.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the Gators offense looked on Saturday and what they can improve on.
Andrew and Nick also talk about the injuries the Gators suffered on Saturday, plus we talk about all of the young guys who played on Saturday for Florida.
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Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we knew we’d be talking about a win. 45-0. Shutout. Overall, I think the game was a good game for Florida. I thought there was some questions about the offensive line and all that. We’ll get into that a little bit more, but any time you can shut out a team and score 45 and go to 2-0 you’re good.
Nick: Yeah. Listen, the first quarter was kind of weird, because it’s 3-0. It went so quick. Almost looked up and was like, the first quarter’s over.
Andrew: It was boring.
Nick: The next three quarters took four and a half hours to finish, but the first quarter went quickly. You get out of the game with a 45-0 win. First shutout since 2017. That’s good. I think you continue to progress and continue to work. I guess the bad thing, and the thing we’ll need to address quickly are injuries, because you don’t get out of the game unscathed.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: That’s probably what will be on everyone’s mind. When you play games like this, you go in just hoping, get the win, stay healthy. Florida went one for two, with both Kadarius Toney and CJ Henderson coming down with injuries. Neither was able to come back into the game.
Andrew: It happened pretty close together.
Nick: Kind of like a bang, bang. It’s almost like you stubbed a toe, and then when you reach down to grab your toe you bang your funny bone on the table. It was almost like boom, boom, two things happen real quick.
Andrew: Yeah. We’re taping this on Sunday, so we’re still waiting on some updates. Seems like Kadarius doesn’t have a break, has a sprain, a bone bruise. Is going to be out for some time, no question about that. Dan Mullen kind of hinted on Saturday that CJ Henderson probably had an ankle sprain. I’ll say this, Nick. I mean, we’ll get into this more, but I think you can afford to rest both of those guys for a couple weeks anyway. You got Kentucky this week. You shouldn’t really need CJ Henderson, and then after that you got Tennessee, and they’re atrocious. Then you got Townsend. You should have some time to rest those guys, as long as it isn’t the dreaded high ankle sprain.
Nick: The dreaded high ankle sprain that takes anywhere from six weeks to six years to get better. Yeah. Obviously, when he comes out on crutches and in a walking boot, people start freaking out. Listen, no matter what you do to your foot or your ankle in a game, training staff’s going to put you in a boot and on crutches. Get all the weight off your foot or ankle, whatever it is. I think that’s something to just monitor. Don’t freak out about it. Just monitor.
Andrew: I think people freaked out because they said, he’s in a boot. I don’t really see that necessarily. A lot of these guys, they sprain their ankle or have a little ankle issue in general they immediately put it in there just to help them out and get that pressure off of it and hope not to worsen the injury.
Nick: Yeah. Then the question becomes is it pain management? Can you make it worse? Do you play against Kentucky? Do you not play against Kentucky, and then you can definitely take a week off against Townsend? You got Tennessee coming up. I guess, the question is,]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!42:56Podcast: Friday prediction podcast for Florida Gators vs. UT-Martinhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-prediction-podcast-for-florida-gators-vs-ut-martin/
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:00:07 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110693https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-prediction-podcast-for-florida-gators-vs-ut-martin/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-friday-prediction-podcast-for-florida-gators-vs-ut-martin/feed/0GC brings you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. UT-Martin game on Saturday night in the Swamp to kick off the 2019 home season.GC brings you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. UT-Martin game on Saturday night in the Swamp to kick off the 2019 home season.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre continue to preview the game, plus we talk about the three young guys we want to see on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball on Saturday.
Andrew and Nick also predict the games around the country, plus we give you our three guys to watch for the Gators on Saturday.
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Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s almost game day. It’s Friday again. We’re going to pick some games, and it’s Gators-UT Martin, but it’s football.
Nick: Yeah. Football is back after a week away and a hurricane scare. Football’s back, and it’s a nice little tune up week for Florida. I mean, I shouldn’t say that. You don’t want to end up being Tennessee.
Andrew: I was going to say. Is it another Georgia State game coming down the wire?
Nick: I would hope not.
Andrew: I mean, UT Martin, they’re a decent team. Dan Mullen said it, they run that 3-3-5 defense, and that’s a little bit of a different defense. It’s a defense though that I think if Florida is doing what Florida does, Florida should have a ton, and I mean a ton, of success on the outside. 3-3-5 is kind of predicated on making sure that you block the edges, and as long as you block the edges in this game, jet sweeps should be there. Outsize zones should be there. Your option game should be there. Even some of your little bubble screens, that stuff should be there.
I know when we coached when we went up against a 3-3-5 we wanted our tight ends to get the edge, and we wanted our receivers to get those crack back blocks inside, because after that those edges were free, and you were able to run and get some ground on that outside. While the 3-3-5 is a little different, it’s also it can be very successful in your short game if you’re running and doing fundamentals correctly.
Nick: Now, this isn’t a defense that you would implement because you’re looking to get over like a talent gap, right? Like remember when people talked about Georgia Southern or Georgia Tech or the Academies running triple options, that was because they can’t get the same kind of athletes that a school like Florida or Alabama can, but we can run this thing they don’t see a lot.
Andrew: Right. No. I mean, a lot of it is just that they’re more of an athletic defense. Some of the better teams in the area when I was coaching ran the 3-3-5, because they had some bigger linebackers, but they were athletic linebackers and were able to just kind of work in space better, I guess is the best way to say it, but no, definitely not a defense that you’re going to implement for one week. It’s a defense that is assignment football. You better be in your assignment, because if not, you’re only playing six men in the box. A lot of bad things can happen if you’re not playing assignment football.
Nick: Yeah. I mean, even when you’re playing assignment football, you’re an Ohio Valley Conference football team that is going up against an SEC football team. Their coach, James Simpson, said it on his own. He said, “It’s an uphill battle.” He’s like 1-23 in his time against any FBS football teams. I was unable to go back and find the game that he won against them.
Andrew: That’s not good.
Nick: No.
Andrew: Not good at all. I mean, we can sit here, and we can talk about UT Martin and what they need to do to win the game and everything else, but at the end of the day, Florida plays their game, and this should be a game that’s over by halftime.
Nick: I lied.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!47:16Podcast: Midweek before the Florida Gators take on UT-Martinhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-midweek-before-the-florida-gators-take-on-ut-martin/
Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:00:30 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110642https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-midweek-before-the-florida-gators-take-on-ut-martin/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-midweek-before-the-florida-gators-take-on-ut-martin/feed/0GC brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators game against UT-Martin on Saturday night in Gainesville.GC brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators game against UT-Martin on Saturday night in Gainesville.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk about the keys for the Gators on Saturday and what areas they need to improve in against UT-Martin.
Andrew and Nick also talk about what happened last week in college football, plus we talk about the latest news regarding former Gators in the NFL.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back finally. Your boy was down for the count this weekend, but we’re good. It’s Wednesday before UT Martin. The mighty UT Martin comes to town in Gainesville. Looks like the weather should be clear. Hurricane Dorian finally made that turn. Maybe it’ll keep turning to the east and get out of town again.
Nick: Yeah. Shoot, this has been one of the weirder hurricanes, and I’ve lived in Florida 30 years. One of the stranger hurricanes that I’ve followed. It kind of just got big and no one really knew where it was going to go. Then all of a sudden, it just stopped moving.
Andrew: Literally stopped moving.
Nick: It just stalled. I’ve never seen for a full 24 hours. Unfortunately, for the people in the Bahamas, in Grand Bahama it stalled right over them. Hurricane Dorian was literally, on Monday I think it was, just if it was moving was moving west at one mile an hour.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: We were all kind of just in a holding pattern. Florida cancelled everything from classes, and good for Florida, making sure the students are safe. Cancelled classes Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so there was nothing going on. Players were allowed to go home. We talked about that. Allowed to go home. They had to come back Sunday, but Monday was kind of just a meeting day. I think a light practice in the indoor, because you’re still wondering do you have anything you need. Got 100 guys on your team. You got to make sure they got water and batteries and all kinds of stuff, just in case the storm did come. Luckily, now it looks like it’s going to stay off the coast. The Gainesville Sun had an Alachua County official tell them that they don’t even think there’s a chance that Gainesville will get hurricane sized winds or winds that would register at hurricane sizes. Fortunate for us, and we’ll have football Saturday. This storm will kind of stay off the coast.
Andrew: I know this is Wednesday, and we usually don’t recap things, but since we didn’t get to recap things, and you had the UT Martin this weekend, so there’s not a ton to really preview here. We’ll do little bit more on Friday. Nick, what the hell happened on Saturday?
Nick: Saturday was wild. I mean, where do you even want to start? I guess we start with Tennessee.
Andrew: No. Let’s start with the first game that happened, and that was Florida State. Let me say this and get this out of the way, I was down sick all weekend. I only saw bits and pieces of every game. Did not watch a full game at all. I was in and out of falling asleep seeing Twitter was raving about Kendal Briles. Florida State was up big at half-time, or up pretty good amount.
Nick: Up 18 at one point.
Andrew: I wake back up, see Twitter, and it’s a three-point ballgame or four-point ballgame, Boise State’s about to take the lead. Flip it on there, and Boise State dominated the rest of the game. In a game that was supposed to be in Jacksonville.
Nick: Yeah. So, strange, it was originally scheduled as a home-and-home. Florida State wanted the game to be in Jacksonville. Then the game was moved from Jacksonville because of Dorian to Tallahassee.
]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!46:57Podcast: Recapping the Florida Gators win over Miamihttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-miami/
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:00:15 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110536https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-miami/#commentshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-florida-gators-win-over-miami/feed/1GC brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Miami on Saturday night in Orlando to open the 2019 football season.GC brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Miami on Saturday night in Orlando to open the 2019 football season.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how the offense did on Saturday and what went right and wrong for the Gators.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown what the Gators can do to improve between week 0 and week two of the football season as they started the season 1-0.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. As you can tell, my voice is gone a little bit. Orlando won this weekend, and the Gators won, Nick. Gators are 1-0. Wasn’t pretty, but they’re 1-0.
Nick: That’s good then, Spivey, because the people really want to hear me talk, and since your voice is hurting, I’ll just talk more today.
Andrew: There you go. I’ll let you go at it. You can go. Mark Richt’s not coaching for Miami, so I don’t need to get fired up.
Nick: No. If he was, then they would have covered the spread.
Andrew: Yeah. I mean, Jarren Williams wouldn’t be the quarterback, because he was leaving.
Nick: Obviously, not a clean game from either side. Not a well officiated game, and not saying the officials were biased one way or the other, they were just plain bad. Plain bad for both teams. Not what we expected from Florida. I didn’t expect the penalties. Miami had more. You expect that in a first game for a new staff and a young team. I didn’t expect the penalties for Florida. I didn’t expect the turnovers for Florida. Feleipe had three on his own, two interceptions and then a fumble, which was a botched snap between himself and Lamical. Then I didn’t expect the big plays from Miami. I think Miami had a couple chunk plays, especially when they’re chunk plays out of a wildcat. I mean, come on. That’s stuff you see on film, and you should be ready for.
Overall, and I wrote this after the game, it’s what Florida, the coaching staff, preaches. The strain, the want, the desire. Don’t let go of the rope. All of those things that you can say are clichés, that’s why they won the game. It’s Nick Savage’s weightlifting program and that mental toughness. That’s why they won the game. I think they were the better team, but they didn’t play like it. Dan Mullen joked and said, “Our offense did a really good job of keeping Miami’s offense on the field by turning the ball over.” Florida did that three times. Only ran 52 plays to Miami’s 94. The time in possession, Miami had a 13-minute advantage in time in possession.
Is it good that Florida found a way to win? Yes. Good teams find ways to win. That’s not going to be good enough to win week in, week out in the SEC. You’re not going to just will yourself to victory, more times than not. Maybe you can, but more times that not you’re not going to will yourself to victory on the road in Baton Rouge or in Jacksonville against Georgia, against good teams.
Andrew: I think the biggest thing, Nick, is the two fumbles were drive killers. I mean, they were. They were drive killers.
Nick: Drive killers. Momentum shifters. Both of them.
Andrew: Then several of the late hits were drive extenders for Miami. This is a team that is a veteran team on defense for the most part. You wouldn’t expect that. You wouldn’t expect the late hits, out of bounds, the jawing after the play, as much. You wouldn’t expect that kind of stuff. You had way too much of it. I said it was an undisciplined football team on Saturday, and that’s what it looked like on both sides. Miami was undisciplined because they were very young. Florida was undisciplined. I don’t know the answer. Was it Game 1? We’ll see as it goes on.
When I say undisciplined, it’s the penalties, turnovers. It’s the missed tackles, Nick.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!39:51Podcast: Prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Miamihttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-prediction-podcast-for-the-florida-gators-vs-miami/
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:00:17 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110474https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-prediction-podcast-for-the-florida-gators-vs-miami/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-prediction-podcast-for-the-florida-gators-vs-miami/feed/0GC brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Miami game on Saturday in Orlando.GC brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Miami game on Saturday in Orlando.
Andrew and Nick take a look at the keys for the Florida Gators on Saturday, plus we talk about some over and under’s for the Gators this season.
Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch on Saturday, plus we predict the game between the Gators and Canes.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, almost game day. It’s Friday that you guys are listening to this. You and I are taping this on Thursday. It’s time to pick some games, pick some players, and let’s get ready, get our prediction time. It’s prediction Friday.
Nick: Yeah. Depending on when you’re listening, we’re around 24 hours, maybe less than 24 hours. Maybe you’re drinking some Trulies or some White Claws while you’re tailgating and listening to us, but it’s almost game day. I’m ready for the season to kick off.
Andrew: It’s almost there. As it gets closer, it kind of seems like the trash talk has died down a little bit. Maybe Miami fans are starting to realize, we might not be as good as we think we are.
Nick: Maybe. When the game’s 60 days away or three months away it’s easy to talk smack. I think every fan gets a little nervous when the game starts to come up. Maybe at that point you start dialing it back a little bit.
Andrew: I’m thinking about do I have enough to pay off this debt that I’m about to run my mouth about, so yeah. Like I said before, I said this earlier this week, as it got closer to time, I like this whole being on the national stage. Dan Mullen said it. The guys need to embrace the fact that Saturday is going to be basically dedicated to Florida-Miami. I think that that’s something that if you’re Dan Mullen, if you’re this team, we talk about several guys on this team. I say year in and year out Lamical Perine is one of the most underrated backs in the country. It’s his time to shine. We talked about Marco Wilson not getting the attention he deserves. Listen, Marco Wilson is not going to complain about it. He’s going to go out there and do his job, but this is his time to get some national attention. Overall, the guys who said Florida’s ranked too high at #8, it’s your time to prove them all wrong.
Nick: Yeah. I think the biggest point for Florida is building off that last month of the season. I think they’ve done that. They’ve had a really good off season, and you get to start Week 0. That’s a weird thing to say, Week 0, like it’s high school Jamboree season or something. You get to start Week 0 off with a quality opponent. I know it’s Manny Diaz’s first year, his first year at the program, but it’s the University of Miami, and the history comes along with that. It’s an instate rival. There’s only one game at 7:00 on Saturday, so everybody, not just college football fans, but just football fans in general. Football is back. There is four games on Saturday, but really only one that matters, and that’s Florida-Miami, so it’s a huge stage. I’m sure the adrenaline’s going to be pumping on Saturday in Orlando.
Andrew: Yeah. It’s kind of like you said. There’s a lot of people who are just ready for football that means something. I’ll be the first to admit, preseason football does nothing for me. I’ll flip it on and watch the first couple series when Matt Ryan and Julio Jones are in the game, and then after that it’s like, I’m done. This is the first time to see real football that means something. It’s going to be special. I am very interested, Nick, to see how the crowds are at the stadium, inside and outside. I think inside is going to be packed. I also am interested to see the tv ratings.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!45:08Podcast: Previewing Florida Gators vs Miami with David Furoneshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-florida-gators-vs-miami-with-david-furones/
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:00:29 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110433https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-florida-gators-vs-miami-with-david-furones/#commentshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-florida-gators-vs-miami-with-david-furones/feed/1GC brings you a new podcast as we're joined by David Furones as we continue to breakdown the Florida Gators big game against Miami on Saturday in Orlando.GC brings you a new podcast as we're joined by David Furones as we continue to breakdown the Florida Gators big game against Miami on Saturday in Orlando.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by David Furones of the South Florida Sun Sentinel to get his take on how the Canes match-up with the Gators on Saturday.
Andrew and Nick also update what Dan Mullen had to say on Monday at his press conference about the Gators heading into the Miami game.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, three days and counting and we’ll be living from Camping World Stadium watching the Gators and ‘Canes.
Nick:​Hey, we don’t often say this, but thank you, NCAA. You shortened our off season by seven days, and I’m ready for some football now.
Andrew:​I’ll say this, Nick. At first, I was like I don’t know about this, moving it up, having a bye week right afterwards. But the more I get to think about it, and the more as we get closer to time, I’m pretty cool with it. You get a week here. Then next week we kind of get to watch some games. Then you get to go back out the cupcakes.
Nick:​Yeah. Shoot. I’ve been so wrapped up in Miami I haven’t even seen. It’s not like a fan experience for us. We don’t really get to watch a ton of games, especially when Florida plays at 3:30.
Andrew:​Right.
Nick:​I maybe get to watch the first half of those noon games before I’m at the stadium, and I’m working. Then I’m writing pretty much all the way through until Hawaii kicks off at midnight. It’ll be interesting to see, get to watch everyone in those first week games. I’ll be a fan, drinking some beer and watching ESPN and CBS like the rest of you guys. I’m looking forward to being a fan for Week 1, after working Week 0.
Andrew:​Get to watch that Auburn-Oregon game. That should be a good one.
Nick:​Yeah. That’ll be a fun one. I’m interested to see Auburn, because I don’t know what the heck they got at quarterback, but I want to see that defensive line.
Andrew:​You want to see Gus go and get that one loss closer to being …
Nick:​I’m not discrediting you, but yeah, I mean, you know what you’re talking about over there in the state of Alabama, and you don’t think Gus makes it through the year.
Andrew:​No, I just don’t. Who’s playing quarterback? You know what I’m saying? He fired his OC to be the guy to call the offense. Let’s face it. His offense probably isn’t going to be good this year. He’s not going to beat Alabama. I mean, if he starts off bad, they’re going to fire him. They wanted to fire him last year. I’m not sold on it. That’s all I’m saying. I just don’t think that he makes it very far. I mean, you look at this, Nick. Oregon. If they lose to Oregon, and then they lose to Mississippi State and Texas A&M, they could very well have three loses before they get to Gainesville.
Nick:​Yeah. I mean, that would get it. I anticipate Florida being undefeated, not to ruin my Friday pick. I anticipate Florida being undefeated going into that Homecoming game against Auburn. I mean, if you’ve got three loses heading into Gainesville, and then lose to Florida, I see what you’re saying.
Andrew:​I mean, the schedule for them is not easy, and there’s so many question marks. Yes, you’re right, the defensive line is sick. It’s nasty, but you and I experienced the Will Muschamp era. The defense only does so much. You better score points. Oregon and Texas A&M are going to score points, and lots of them.
​Nick, you got a guest from Miami that’s going to join us here in a second. We’re going to talk about that, get more into this rivalry game. It does need to be noted, we’re taping this on Tuesday. You’re listening to this on Wednesday. On Tuesday it was officially announced that the Home-and-Home series will be taking place in 2024 and 2025. Gators get the first home game against Miami at home,]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!43:13Podcast: Talking Brenton Cox transfer, plus Florida Gators footballhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-brenton-cox-transfer-plus-florida-gators-football/
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:00:16 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110324https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-brenton-cox-transfer-plus-florida-gators-football/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-brenton-cox-transfer-plus-florida-gators-football/feed/0GC brings you a new podcast as we discuss the transfer of Brenton Cox to Florida, plus talk about the latest news surrounding the Gators football program.GC brings you a new podcast as we discuss the transfer of Brenton Cox to Florida, plus talk about the latest news surrounding the Gators football program.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown the Brenton Cox transfer to Florida, plus what he has to do in order to become eligible for the Gators in 2019.
Andrew and Nick also talk about how the latest scrimmage went for the Gators and what group stood out for Florida.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, you get close to fall camp, and you think adding and subtracting players isn’t going to happen very much, but in Gainesville the unexpected is always the expected.
Nick: Yeah. Never a dull day covering the Gators. I always say it.
Andrew: Yeah. The transfer portal has turned this into this, to what we got now. The transfer portal is a free agency. Let’s call it what it is. They can say they’re waivers, yada, yada. The transfer portal is free agency. That’s what it is. Gators benefited, landing five-star outside linebacker/defensive end Brenton Cox from Georgia, and just four days after he left the Georgia program, he’s in Gainesville. Big pickup for the Gators talent wise.
Nick: Moving quick.
Andrew: Moving quick.
Nick: I mean, entered the transfer portal on a Monday, August 5th, and you’re enrolled and in classes August 9th, Friday. I think some of the familiarity, and Dan Mullen didn’t mean to bash his old school. These are just facts. He said, when asked, did you have a prior relationship with Brenton Cox? Yeah. Somewhat. We recruited him when we were at Mississippi State, but he wasn’t coming to Mississippi State. The 11th ranked player in the country by ESPN isn’t going to Mississippi State unless he’s from Starkville or from somewhere in Mississippi.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: I think there was some familiarity during the recruiting process, and then there’s also a bunch of players on Florida’s roster that have played with him and had conversations with him. Obviously, a player of that talent and that skill level wanted to stay in the SEC, and what better place to do it than at Florida?
Andrew: The familiarity of him with Gainesville. He’s a guy that Mac and Randy Shannon and Geoff Collins, those guys, recruited. I told you this when I was going through in the spring. I went up and visited Brenton. It was a longshot that Florida was going to land him, but he was still someone that was in the area when I was going to visit Justin Fields and those guys. Stopped by and visited him. So, there’s that familiarity already with Gainesville. I think one thing that we talk about, but we don’t talk about a ton, and it’s something I thought we needed to hit on, was how popular Todd Grantham’s schemes are. We always talk about how good of a defensive coordinator he is, this, that, and the other, but what he does scheme-wise and what he was able to do with Jachai Polite is something that took notice around the country and took notice around the SEC. It’s a draw. It’s a draw to Gainesville.
Nick: Yeah. I mean, that’s a draw to Gainesville. I think getting another player, because when you look at it, Jeremiah Moon’s a redshirt junior, if I’m not mistaken. You’re going to lose Jonathan Greenard. Sure, you’ve got Khris Bogle, Mohamoud Diabate, but if a player of this caliber asks you to come, you don’t say no. We can maybe even get into how Dan Mullen is building the roster, and there’s been a lot of transfers, and there’s been some JUCO guys, stuff like that. I think it’s something he probably got comfortable doing at Mississippi State, like I alluded to or even said when talking about Brenton Cox, he kind of had to do that at Mississippi State.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!35:51Podcast: Recapping SEC Media Days for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators/
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:37:49 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=110074https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators/#commentshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators/feed/1GC brings you a new podcast as we recap what the Florida Gators had to say during SEC Media Days on Monday in Hoover, Alabama.GC brings you a new podcast as we recap what the Florida Gators had to say during SEC Media Days on Monday in Hoover, Alabama.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what all of the players had to say as well as what Dan Mullen had to say.
Andrew and Nick also talk about the latest recruiting news, plus continue to preview Friday Night Lights for the Gators.
TRANSCRIPT coming later this afternoon.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!39:32Podcast: Previewing SEC Media Days for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators-2/
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:46:50 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=109998https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators-2/#respondhttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-sec-media-days-for-the-florida-gators-2/feed/0GC brings you a new podcast as we preview SEC Media Days for the Florida Gators, plus we talk the latest in recruiting for the Gators.GC brings you a new podcast as we preview SEC Media Days for the Florida Gators, plus we talk the latest in recruiting for the Gators.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown the Gators three players that will represent the team in Hoover next week, plus we talk about the rest of the players that will be in attendance.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown the latest in recruiting and the recent commits, plus we start to preview Friday Night Lights.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man Andrew Spivey here with Nicholas de la Torre. We’re kind of out of our summer month hiatus, and Monday starts football season pretty much. SEC Media Days will go back to Hoover. I kind of call it the heart of the SEC, with the SEC office there and all that good stuff. Even though I did like Atlanta last year. It’ll be the unofficial start of the season. Really, what, two weeks later the Gators get on the practice field.
Nick: Talking season is winding down, but it doesn’t wind down before we have the biggest talking event of the off season. Media Day, by the time you’re listening to this, I mean, Florida will already be done in a week’s time. Florida goes the first day, Monday, and we’re going to talk about who they’re bringing, who the rest of the SEC teams are bringing. There’s always something interesting that comes out of SEC Media Days, good or bad. Always something interesting. Then we will definitely pick the wrong champion as a media collective out there.
Andrew: Will Tennessee get a pick?
Nick: To win?
Andrew: Yeah.
Nick: No. I mean, yeah. Someone will. Not this guy.
Andrew: Just checking. My vote will be Alabama. Till they lose.
Nick: Not Georgia?
Andrew: Yeah. Okay. I do think I’ll pick Georgia to win the East, when it comes time. We can hit on that here in a few minutes. I do think I’ll probably go Alabama-Georgia. Just for the simple reason that until it happens, you know, Georgia is the team to beat right now. Do you agree with that?
Nick: Maybe. Yeah. How many guys do they have committed for this upcoming recruiting class? 40 again?
Andrew: 40 again. Yeah. And they’re all five-stars. Let’s move on here. Florida announced on Wednesday. We’re taping this on Wednesday. You’ll be listening to this on Thursday. Florida announced that they’ll bring Feleipe Franks as the quarterback, Lamical Perine at running back, and Jabari for defense. I think there was a back and forth of would it be David Reese for the second time, or would it be Jabari. You had a good point about that, and that is you try to reward guys who come back for their senior year. That’s no disrespect to David Reese, but David Reese has already kind of got that shining moment of attending SEC Media Days last year, so give someone else a chance to go. I will say this. I think he might have took the three nontalkative guys for the most part, or the guys who will give the least headlines. Lamical is my guy, all that kind of stuff, but he’s a little bit more laidback. Jabari is the same way, and we all know what Feleipe is going to bring.
Nick: Yeah. I think the most interesting one to me was Feleipe Franks.
Andrew: Okay.
Nick: Florida hasn’t brought–
Andrew: We lost you for a second.
Nick: Sorry. Florida hasn’t brought a quarterback since Driskel went in back to back years, in 2013, 2014. It’s really just bringing a quarterback to SEC Media Days you’re not bringing your backup.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: You’re not bringing a guy that’s going to be in a split role really.]]>GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!46:42Podcast: Talking recent events for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-recent-events-for-the-florida-gators/
Wed, 15 May 2019 09:00:21 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=109521GC brings you a new podcast as we talk about the recent events surrounding the Florida Gators football program and we discuss what's going on with the program.GC brings you a new podcast as we talk about the recent events surrounding the Florida Gators football program and we discuss what's going on with the program.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!38:13Podcast: Recapping the Orange and Blue spring game for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-the-orange-and-blue-spring-game-for-the-florida-gators/
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:00:26 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=109196GC brings you a new podcast as we recap how the Orange and Blue spring game went for the Florida Gators on Saturday.GC brings you a new podcast as we recap how the Orange and Blue spring game went for the Florida Gators on Saturday.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!45:19Podcast: Previewing the Orange and Blue spring gamehttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-the-orange-and-blue-spring-game/
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:00:52 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=109068GC brings you a new podcast as we preview the Orange and Blue spring game for the Florida Gators on Saturday in the Swamp.GC brings you a new podcast as we preview the Orange and Blue spring game for the Florida Gators on Saturday in the Swamp.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!35:56Podcast: Talking spring football and pro day for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-spring-football-and-pro-day-for-the-florida-gators/
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:00:02 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=108930GC brings you a new podcast as we break down spring practices and the Florida Gators scrimmage last week, plus we talk pro day for the Gators.GC brings you a new podcast as we break down spring practices and the Florida Gators scrimmage last week, plus we talk pro day for the Gators.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!43:27Podcast: Previewing the NCAA tournament for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/florida-gators-basketball/podcast-previewing-the-ncaa-tournament-for-the-florida-gators/
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:00:36 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=108639GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview the NCAA tournament for the Florida Gators basketball team that starts on Thursday against Nevada.GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview the NCAA tournament for the Florida Gators basketball team that starts on Thursday against Nevada.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!27:26Podcast: Previewing Florida Gators spring football practicehttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-florida-gators-spring-football-practice/
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:00:03 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=108493GC brings you a new podcast as we preview spring football practice for the Florida Gators that starts on Tuesday.GC brings you a new podcast as we preview spring football practice for the Florida Gators that starts on Tuesday.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!43:51Podcast: Recapping National Signing Day for the Florida Gatorshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-recapping-national-signing-day-for-the-florida-gators/
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:00:15 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=107981GC brings you a new podcast as we breakdown how the Florida Gators did on National Signing Day on Wednesday.GC brings you a new podcast as we breakdown how the Florida Gators did on National Signing Day on Wednesday.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!48:29Podcast: Talking David Turner hiring, plus Florida Gators recruitinghttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-david-turner-hiring-plus-florida-gators-recruiting/
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:00:55 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=107807GC brings you a new podcast as we breakdown the hiring of David Turner as new Florida Gators defensive line coach, plus we talk recruiting and junior day for the Gators.GC brings you a new podcast as we breakdown the hiring of David Turner as new Florida Gators defensive line coach, plus we talk recruiting and junior day for the Gators.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!45:30Podcast: Talking Torrian Gray returning, plus more coaching newshttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-talking-torrian-gray-returning-plus-more-coaching-news/
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:00:50 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=107704GC brings you a new podcast as we discuss the hiring of defensive backs coach Torrian Gray, plus we talk recruiting.GC brings you a new podcast as we discuss the hiring of defensive backs coach Torrian Gray, plus we talk recruiting.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!41:55Podcast: Previewing January 11th official visits and talking recruitinghttps://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/podcast-previewing-january-11th-official-visits-and-talking-recruiting/
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:00:52 +0000https://www.gatorcountry.com/?p=107499GC brings you a new podcast as we break down the Florida Gators recruiting efforts and previews this weekend's official visitors that are expected in town.GC brings you a new podcast as we break down the Florida Gators recruiting efforts and previews this weekend's official visitors that are expected in town.GatorCountry.com - The Insider Authority on Florida Gators Sports!37:24